xoskillet - don't deal with him. you will regret it if you do

I am fed up with him. May be it's a small amount but I had to spend a lot of time to follow up with him.

He asked for a clickbank scraper on hireafreelancer section and chose me to do his work. I did it and showed him the demo and asked him to pay as we agreed earlier. First he said he is having problems with paypal. Then no communication for some time. Again when I pmed him about it he said he had no money and that he was embarrassed about it and he ought to get money soon. I was naive enough to believe his BS stories. No communication again. I contacted him again after 3 days. no reply. contacted once more. no reply. waited for some more days and told him I will wait for 2 more days and list him under shit list. He never replied for anything. And I can see him online here everyday.

The time and effort spent for working him and following him up with PMs has been a complete waste. I could have easily done something else that is worth while and got paid from that.

Here is the disussion as it is from my PM box (paypal email changed).

essares1 said:

hey man so I think it's pretty clear by now that you are not planning to me. I have been naive enough to believe in whatever u had said. I'll wait for another 2 days and open a thread in shitlist regarding this since I have the full history of communication. May be you don't really care much about your account here which is why u r not even answering me, but I think that is the least I can do for my loss. I could have spent that time working for someone else who actually paid me. lesson learned

essares1 said:

hey man. so what's the situation now. It's too late. at least can u tell me how much u can pay me now. remaining we shall see later. things have been not going well for me since I didn't get payment when I expected. I really need the money.

xoskillet said:

i'll find a way. - thanks for being so cool about it.

essares1 said:

Thanks man. I was worried because I didn't get any messages from you. That's ok. We all have our moments when we run out of money unexpectedly. I can wait. Pls just remember to send it over when ur situation is back to normal. It helps me pay some bills if u can do it before 31st. I'd appreciate if u can do. thanks.

xoskillet said:

i'm on it man - and I wont let you down... an auto-charge (rebilling, whatever) hit my card and i didnt have money to pay you... embarrassed the shit out of me, so i was just hoping to get more money before you became agitated... man, im going to get you set up asap.

essares1 said:

hello? I am seeing that u r online here but not replying me. are u backing off after I did all the work? I am not feeling comfortable with this. Reply to this message asap.

essares1 said:

hey man, what happened again with the payment?

essares1 said:

hi I guess you can pay to my email by going to paypal website and paying just how u pay using a button. For example u can pay to my email using a CC by going to paypal website. Let me know if that worked for u.

xoskillet said:

sorry for the delay - okay, i dont have paypal, so i cant just send to your email... i assumed they would have that option but they dont that i could find - so can you just create a payment button for me and i'll get you paid immediately.

essares1 said:

hi man, may I know when are u going to pay me? thanks

xoskillet said:

Hey man - just letting you know i received your message... I'm going to get you paid up asap.

essares1 said:

hi the scraper is done. I have uploaded it on my server. you can see the demo at . Currently it only runs for 3 minutes so u can see the results on the page. The actual script runs for a long time and saves the links to a file instead of displaying on page. I have also added a feature to store the current position of the scraping process. So u can stop it at any time and run it later if u wish.

Pls send the amount there. thx

xoskillet said:

i didnt know that -- ok, i guess just do it in php then.

once you build it, just put it up (or a demo) on your site or whatever so that i can verify its what i wanted, and send me your payal addy to pay you.

and thanks man!

essares1 said:

ok I will do it in latest imacros then. Again u are aware that imacros scripting edition actually needs a programming language like VB or php to do the logic behind scraping the data? So which one are u more comfortable with - VB or php? You need to be able to tweak the code a little bit later if u want to change the conditions and such. I will provide u with full commented code. So let me know which one and if u want me to start.

xoskillet said:

i prefer imacros script (latest version).

but php script is fine too if it enables you to add in more options like only returning results for recurring products, or only return results for over x dollars, or only return results for greater than x% affiliate commission.

that sort of thing.

i prefer imacros script because it will give me the ability to learn a bit about how to build bots like this.

essares1 said:

Do you want the data or the script? For all the products I will take $60. I can do it either in imacros or php. I will start if u give me a go ahead. Also let me know if u want it in imacros or php.

xoskillet said:

sounds good - i just want it to scrape the affiliate link and landing page urls from the products available on clickbank.

for saving... just have it dump the information into a csv file... col1=aff-link, col2=landing page url.

essares1 said:

hi I can do it. I will take $30-$75 depending on what u need to do. Let me know if interested.

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PS. I don't generally post in shitlist unless I really felt like it. (I was one of the victims of user "rox12345" who scams people for small amounts ~$30. He is still not banned after several reports and is happily browsing BHW).

this xoskillet guy didn't pay me a dime after I did all the work and spent my time for him. For that I put him in shitlist for everybody to see and for people to be careful in the future. I guess he got what he deserved.

Now this rox12345 guy is an outright scammer. He lurks on BHW and sends PMs to people who start threads for small transactions in the range $30-$50. He takes that money from them and disappears for some time only to start contacting another user. I am pretty sure he has accumulated more than $500 just doing this. He scammed me when I posted this thread. He talked to me nice until I sent him money and disappeared immediately.

Now I and most people here don't really bother posting threads for $30. That's how he is getting away all this time. I came to know that he does the same thing with many others through this thread. Actually I talked with some of the people on that thread and his scams are more or less the same with everyone.

I guess now he is not logging in since 15 days but I sense he is lurking here with another account. More than banning him what would help me and others is if you can provide his details like ip address, email id etc. That's for you to decide anyway.

I notice you are talking about someone else in your second post. Unless the two members/guys worked together to scam you, you should create a separate thread for the other guy you want to post about in the shitlist so there is no confusing and it is easier to keep track of each story.

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